They have been cast as aloof gentlemen drivers. But the cover has been blown at Honda Racing. That can happen when a driver calls his car #### like Jenson Button reportedly did last weekend according to SPEED TV broadcasters. But wait! There's more. Button added that team members have begun "shouting at each other".
And check this from Rubens Barichello. "It (the car) acts like a parachute on the straights.
Ouch! Not very nice Rubens. But I hear your frustration. And as a fan I feel your pain.
"Sometimes you just need to voice off some truths," said the Brazilian, who described the Brackley based team's error of not having his car adequately set up when he needed to use it at Sepang to qualify as "amateurish". After two weeks of this "####" Rubens is indubitably pissed. "In qualifying in Melbourne, the car was hitting the ground like never before. The car is bad. What can I do? I'm like a passenger."
"Everyone needs to calm down, go back to Europe, sit down and check things out. We have tried a lot of things but not one thing seems to be working. We need to use the human side to sort things out. We can't do anything about the car."
Rubens isn't throwing in the towel. What he is saying is that for this week at least the team is stuck with this car and its inherent design flaws. The question is what can human ingenuity do in a creative group problem solving environment to make lemonade from an obvious lemon. I imagine those meetings were held yesterday. At least I damn well hope so!
Too bad Sterling Marlin doesn't just come out and tell it like it is these days. I miss hearing him say, "The car just won't go good."
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